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Definition: Like |
LikeAdjective1. Resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination; "suits of like design"; "a limited circle of like minds"; "members of the cat family have like dispositions"; "as like as two peas in a pod"; "doglike devotion"; "a dreamlike quality". 2. Equal in amount or value; "like amounts"; "equivalent amounts"; "the same amount"; "gave one six blows and the other a like number"; "an equal number"; "the same number". 3. Having the same or similar characteristics; "all politicians are alike"; "they looked utterly alike"; "friends are generaly alike in background and taste". 4. Conforming in every respect; "boxes with corresponding dimensions"; "the like period of the preceding year". Verb1. Prefer or wish to do something; "Do you care to try this dish?" "Would you like to come along to the movies?". 2. Find enjoyable or agreeable; "I like jogging"; "She likes to read Russian novels". 3. Be fond of; "I like my nephews". 4. Feel about or towards; consider, evaluate, or regard; "How did you like the President's speech last night?". 5. Want to have; "I'd like a beer now!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "like" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Tips from 1870 | Usage: Love, Like. We may love our parents, our children, our country, the truth; and we may like roast turkey and cranberry sauce. "I love cherries," "I adore strawberries," are school-girl expressions that should be avoided. Love is an emotion of the heart, and not of the palate. Usage: Like, As. Avoid the use of like in the sense of as. "He thinks just as (not like) his father does." That Anthony Trollope, Hugh Conway and other writers are chargeable with this offence does not justify the use of like for as, but rather proves the need of constant vigilance in order to avoid such errors. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Synonyms: LikeSynonyms: alike(p) (adj), comparable (adj), corresponding (adj), equal (adj), equivalent (adj), same (adj), similar (adj), care (v), wish (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: unalike (adj), unlike (adj), dislike (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Approbation | Do justice to, appreciate; honor, hold in esteem, look up to, admire; like; be in favor of, wish Godspeed; hail, hail with satisfaction. |
Desire | Care for, affect, like, list; take to, cling to, take a fancy to; fancy; prefer; (choose). |
Love | Verb: love, like, affect, fancy, care for, take an interest in, be partial to, sympathize with; affection; be in love; with Adjective: have a love; n. for, entertain a love; n. for, harbor cherish a love; n. for; regard, revere; take to, bear love to, be wedded to; set one's affections on; make much of, feast one's eyes on; hold dear, prize; hug, cling to, cherish, pet. |
Pleasure | Be pleased; with; receive pleasure, derive pleasure; n. from; take pleasure; n. in; delight in, rejoice in, indulge in, luxuriate in; gloat over; (physical pleasure); enjoy, relish, like; love; take to, take a fancy to; have a liking for; enter into the spirit of. |
Relation | In the same category; like; relevant; (apt); applicable, equiparant. |
Savoriness | Relish, like, smack the lips. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Like |
| English words defined with "like": Anything like ♦ feel like ♦ Had like ♦ Like blazes, like crazy, Like figures, like hell, like mad, like sin, like the devil, like thunder, look like ♦ Such like. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "like": Drink like a Fish ♦ Feel like ♦ like kicking dead whales down the beach, like nailing jelly to a tree, like this ♦ Nothing like ♦ pig, run like a ♦ Sleep like a Top ♦ Water Tasting like Wine, Write Like an Angel ♦ you like. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Like" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Norwegian (appreciate, equal, like), Pidgin English (to like), Swedish (equal, match, peer). |
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Screenplays | So this is what the inside of a courtroom looks like. (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) It was just like this one time here (American Pie 2; writing credit: Adam Herz; David H. Steinberg) Got to love the Lord for making things like that (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) So, do you like to party (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) It's like having four pens in one (I.Q.; writing credit: Andy Breckman and Michael Leeson.) | |
Lyrics | You like romantic movies (I Can Love You Like That; performing artist: All-4-One) Well i feel like makin (Feel Like Making Love; performing artist: Bad Company) Ride like the wind to be free again (Ride Like the Wind; performing artist: Christopher Cross) Won't you come ? Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come ? Cause I've been waitin' See if it's true Won't you come ? Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come ? Cause I've been waitin' See if it's true See if it's true See if it's true Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' See if it's true See if it's true See if it's true Now I've lost the thing That I had to say I know you're no good that way You send me, you wanted this, too Take your heart I think I get it now Well I just can't prolong Somehow I'll really do See if it's true Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' See if it's true See if it's true Time was we'd drop out everything And there was a peace you'd bring But you didn't wanna go Talked about the hell we'd both been through Seemed like the thing to do Like something I needed to know See if it's true See if it's true (Seemed Like the Thing to Do; performing artist: Dino) 'Cause then you really might know what it's like to have to lose (What It's Like; performing artist: Everlast) | |
Clever | Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued. (references; author: Bob Hope) He liked to like people, therefore people liked him. (references; author: Mark Twain) I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. (references; author: Groucho Marx) Oklahoma: Like The Play, Only No Singing (references; author: unknown) Man who drive like hell bound to get there. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Take Me Like Wow (1974) Thieves Like Us (1974) Would I Ever Like to Work (1974) Like Other People (1973) A Day Like Tomorrow (1973) | |
Song Titles | Will His Love Be Like His Rum (performing artist: Harry Belafonte) Feels Like The First Time (performing artist: Foreigner) Waiting For A Girl Like You (performing artist: Foreigner) Tell It Like It Is (performing artist: Heart) I Like The Way (The Kissing Game) (performing artist: Hi-Five) | |
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Kaposi's sarcoma like lesion in athymic mouse - nude mouse. This lesion was induced by metabolically active cells 4x10(6) injected subcutaneously. Arrow indicated positive result. Left side was injected with fixed cells. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | Pharmacist is preparing cd4, which is a new treatment for AIDS and ARC (AIDS-related complex). cd4 is administered intravenously by a syringe pump, in the foreground, which is programmed to infuse cd4 over a 24-hour period. cd4 acts like a decoy and blocks the cd4 receptors on the t4 cell, thus preventing the HIV virus from infecting the cell. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). | ||
Ground Squirrels like this Spotted Ground Squirrel, S. spilosoma, have been involved in plague epizootics. Credit: CDC. | Rabies in humans is almost always fatal. Symptoms may be headache, fatigue, fever and pain at the site of the bite can be present. Behavioral changes like apprehension, anxiety, agitation, irritability, insomnia and depression may also appear. Credit: CDC. | ||
Just when it seemed like the summer movie season had ended, two of NASA's Great Observatories ... Credit: NASA. | The Hubble telescope reveals a rainbow of colors in this dying star, called IC 4406. Like many ... Credit: NASA. | ||
![]() | Computer generated surface view of Gula Mons.For this image, we also have a special treat. Because the vertical scale on theseimages is so exaggerated (a factor of 22.5, remember), we thought you might wantto see what one of them would look like with a more realistic vertical scale.This image ofGula Mons( 8k) has beenaltered to more closely resemble the actual vertical scale. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | An overhead view like the one above, but different wavelengthsare assigned to the red, green and blue channels to make the hurricaneappear red. Credit: NASA. |
![]() | The Lambert Glacier in Antarctica is the world's largest glacier. The focal point of this image is an icefall that feeds into the glacier from the vast ice sheet covering the polar plateau. Ice flows like water, albeit much more slowly. Cracks can be seen in this icefall as it bends and twists on its slow-motion descent 1300 feet (400 meters) to the glacier below. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Passage to Alligator Bay, Everglades - looks like Pirates of the Caribbean Party off of HYDROGRAPHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| "Hot Like Fire" by Mary Day Commentary: "A Campfire!." | "Do you like oysters?" by Rene Drost Commentary: "A few baskets with oysters on a shelf." |
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| Short piece which may have been heard on television shows like Miami Vice circa 1980's. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Blaise Pascal | We like to be deceived. |
Epicurus | Live like a god among men. |
George Herbert | Was ever grief like mine? |
Homer | Words like winter snowflakes. |
Marcus T. Cicero | Like associates with like. |
Miguel De Cervantes | He had a face like a blessing. |
Oscar Wilde | Nothing succeeds like success. |
St. Augustine | Love, and do what you like. |
The Atlanta | Covers Dixie Like the Dew. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | In like manner it shall be done concerning aids from the city of London. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | This is in effect no more than to bid them first be slaves, and then to take care of their liberty; and when their chains are on, tell them, they may act like freemen. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | The constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | It spread like an epidemic. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Nothing in this Covenant shall be deemed to affect the validity of international engagements, such as treaties of arbitration or regional understandings like the Monroe doctrine, for securing the maintenance of peace. (reference) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | In McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, supra, the Court, in requiring that a Negro admitted to a white graduate school be treated like all other students, again resorted to intangible considerations: "…his ability to study, to engage in discussions and exchange views with other students, and, in general, to learn his profession." (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1926) |
Roe v. Wade | 1973 | State criminal abortion laws, like those involved here, that except from criminality only a life-saving procedure on the mother's behalf without regard to the stage of her pregnancy and other interests involved violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects against state action the right to privacy, including a woman's qualified right to terminate her pregnancy. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | I like him very much |
A Grief Observed | C.S. Lewis | No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear |
Three Voices | Carroll, Lewis | And darkly fell her answer dread Upon his unresisting head, Like half a hundredweight of lead |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The sound resounded through the house like thunder |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Life, said Marvin dolefully, "loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it." |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Like all that pertains to crime, it seemed never to have known a youthful era. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | For, we repeat, men like advancement |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | She seemed like one whom magic had changed into the likeness of a strange and beautiful seabird |
Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman | "If they all felt like this in the morning it was probably a relief." |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The brain is like a committee of experts. (references) | |
The hiatus itself acts like a second valve. (references) | ||
It may also help with symptoms like hot flashes. (references) | ||
Business | Greece like other E.U. countries has a market economy. (references) | |
Greece, like other E.U. countries, has a market economy. (references) | ||
Like the U.S., France has a long history of franchising. (references) | ||
Children | Pakistan | Health care services, like education, remained seriously inadequate for the nation's children. (references) |
Panama | The Minister of Youth, Women, Children, and Family Affairs acts much like an ombudsman, and the office proposes and reviews laws and monitors government performance. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | Secondary school entrance is restricted by the difficulty of the exam, which changes each year, and the Government's ability to provide sufficient spaces for all who would like to attend. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Nepal | Private radio stations, like print media, practice self-censorship. (references) |
South Africa | Some journalists express concern that the Government would like to control the media. (references) | |
Ghana | Government agencies, like CHRAJ, have been campaigning actively against Trokosi for years. (references) | |
Discrimination | Burkina Faso | Minority ethnic groups, like the majority Mossi, are represented in the inner circles of the Government, and government decisions do not favor one group over another. (references) |
Economic History | Qatar | They like to meet key officers of the foreign firm. (references) |
Singapore | Singaporeans like to try newer and more exotic fruit. (references) | |
Human Rights | Belarus | Prosecutors, like the courts, are organized into offices at the district, regional, and republic levels. (references) |
Argentina | On one occasion, when she picked up Gonzalez at the police station, she was told that next time he would be turned over to her in a casket like her other son. (references) | |
Canada | Provincial authorities publicly stated that he would receive no preferable treatment because he was a police officer, and that his case would be handled like any other crime. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Cameroon | Local Pygmies along the proposed path of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline continue to complain that they have not been compensated fairly for their land like their Bantu neighbors. (references) |
Nicaragua | Like many armed groups operating since the end of the civil war, the Yatama groups combine banditry with a genuine desire to force the Government to devote more resources to their underdeveloped region. (references) | |
Minorities | Pakistan | Like Ahmadis many Christians complain about the difficulty that their children face in gaining admission to government schools and colleges, a problem they attribute to discrimination. (references) |
Political Economy | Peru | Like the President, they serve five-year terms. (references) |
Poland | Freedom Union (UW): like AWS, UW has its origins in the Solidarity movement. (references) | |
Brazil | States are organized like the federal government, with three branches of government. (references) | |
Political Rights | Yemen | The new Council, like the old, advises the President on a range of issues and consists of presidentially appointed members chaired by a former prime minister. (references) |
Trade | Trinidad | Most financing, like most investment, comes from overseas sources. (references) |
Panama | The firm receives its goods and stores them like any other company there. (references) | |
Travel | Egypt | The Egyptian market, like anywhere in the Middle East, is a changing one. (references) |
Moldova | The basic infrastructure institutions like airports and markets usually stay open. (references) | |
Spain | Theft of small items like radios, luggage, cameras, briefcases, and even cigarettes from parked cars is a common problem. (references) | |
Women | Korea | Like men, working-age women must work. (references) |
Colombia | Sex tourism exists to a limited extent, especially in coastal cities like Cartagena and Barranquilla. (references) | |
Colombia | Rape and other acts of violence against women are pervasive in society, and like other crimes, seldom are prosecuted successfully. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Albania | Police often treated trafficked women like criminals rather than victims. (references) |
Zambia | The IRC, like other courts, has inadequate resources to address all cases before it in a timely manner. (references) | |
Zambia | The ZCTU is operated democratically and, like its constituent unions, is independent of any political party and the Government. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity. The student of history who has not been taught to expect the unexpected may justly boast himself inaccessible to the light. "In time of peace prepare for war" has a deeper meaning than is commonly discerned; it means, not merely that all things earthly have an end -- that change is the one immutable and eternal law -- but that the soil of peace is thickly sown with the seeds of war and singularly suited to their germination and growth. It was when Kubla Khan had decreed his "stately pleasure dome" -- when, that is to say, there were peace and fat feasting in Xanadu -- that he heard from afar Ancestral voices prophesying war. One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Ann Richards | Well, Gephardt, interestingly enough is going to look like he's doing pretty well because Iowa is that early primary. |
Celine Dion | I've seen diapers. And believe me, my mother is right. What's in the pooh-pooh is like the Bible. The truth is in there. |
Dennis Miller | In other words, just like our public schools but not as heavily armed. |
Laura Bush | We discussed early on, months ago what we wanted the Christmas to be like, and I thought this would be a really pretty hallway. |
Marlo Thomas | Look at that face, just like when you were in high school. If I didn't know better, I'd say you were a cheerleader in trouble. |
Mary Tyler Moore | There are a few people like that, but I'm not one of them. I find it very difficult. But I'm never one to shirk a challenge. |
Paul McCartney | Half an hour, something like that. If you're really lucky, they just arrive and you kind of just write them down. |
Rush Limbaugh | Money is like water. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Estimates for the Naval Department, prepared by the Secretary of the Navy, for another year will in like manner be communicated with the general estimates. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | Wise counsels, like those which gave us the Constitution, prevailed to uphold it. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Speaker, members of my family and friends, my countrymen, and the friends of my country, wherever they may be, we meet again, as upon a like moment four years ago, and again you have witnessed my solemn oath of service to you. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | President, I should like to say clearly once more that we could not remain indifferent to this. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Tonight I have spoken of some of the goals I should like to see America reach. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Instead of teaching someone else to do a job, we like to do it ourselves. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | With bravery like yours, Shelby, America need never fear for our future. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Great nations like great men must keep their word. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | There are millions like her all across America. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known. We will do everything in our power to make sure that that day never comes. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Like" is generally used as a preposition (except "of") -- approximately 72.91% of the time. "Like" is used about 149,321 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Preposition (except "of") | 72.91% | 108,873 | 89 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 15.83% | 23,639 | 371 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.77% | 10,104 | 925 |
| Adverb (general) | 2.22% | 3,314 | 2,884 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.76% | 2,632 | 3,476 |
| Conjunction (subordinating) | 0.46% | 689 | 9,633 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.03% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Total | 100.00% | 149,321 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "like" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Like | Last name | 300 | 30,081 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "like". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Chimham | N/A | Biblical | Like to them |
| Micaiah | N/A | Biblical | Who is like to God? |
| Micajah | N/A | Biblical (Variant) | Who is like to God? |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "like": act like a fool ♦ ad like one possessed ♦ adhere like a remora ♦ adhere like Dejanira's shirt ♦ albanian leather shoes like moccasins ♦ and the like ♦ and things like that ♦ another one like her ♦ another one like him ♦ any way you like ♦ Anything like ♦ anyway you like ♦ as like as not ♦ as like as two peas ♦ as you like ♦ as you like best ♦ be like ♦ be like a bear with a sore head ♦ be like a cat on hot bricks ♦ be like a dumpling ♦ be like a dying duck in a thunderstorm ♦ be like a stuffed dummy ♦ be like buridan's ass ♦ be like each other ♦ be off like a shot ♦ be packed like sardines ♦ be selling like hot cakes ♦ bear smth. like a man ♦ become like ♦ become like silver ♦ bestride the world like a colossus ♦ blank like fine roll ♦ bleed like a pig ♦ blow like a grampus ♦ bob up like a cork ♦ burn like a tinderbox ♦ carry on like a madman ♦ carry on like the devil ♦ chatter like a magpie ♦ cling to smb. like a bur ♦ clustered like grapes ♦ collapse like a house of cards ♦ come out like ♦ come when you like ♦ corpse like ♦ cry like a child ♦ curse like a trooper ♦ curtain like ♦ deuce! like hell! ♦ die like a dog ♦ die like flies ♦ do not look at me like that ♦ do the like ♦ do you like it? ♦ do you like this? ♦ dog like ♦ done up like a dog's dinner ♦ draw smb. like a magnet ♦ drink like a fish ♦ drop like a stone ♦ drop like flies ♦ drop smth. like a hot potato ♦ dust like ♦ eat like a bird ♦ eat like a horse ♦ eat like a pig ♦ egg like ♦ exactly like ♦ fall like dominoes ♦ feel like ♦ feel like a fish out of water ♦ feel like a giant refreshed ♦ feel like a wet rag ♦ feel like doing smth. ♦ feel like it ♦ fight like cat and dog ♦ fight like dogs ♦ fight like kilkenny cats ♦ fit like a glove ♦ float like a balloon ♦ flour like ♦ for all the world like ♦ go down like ninepins ♦ go like a bat out of hell ♦ go like clockwork ♦ go like lightning ♦ go like the clappers ♦ go like this with your left hand ♦ go out like a lamb ♦ go out like a light ♦ go over like a lead balloon ♦ go round like a horse in a mill ♦ grin like a cheshire cat ♦ grip like a vice ♦ Had like ♦ hair like ♦ hang like a millstone round one's neck ♦ hate like poison ♦ have eyes like a hawk ♦ he behaves like a richman ♦ he felt like it. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "like": like-a, like-as-not, like-charged, like-could, like-faced, like-feathered, like-for, like-for-like, like-i, like-insurance, like-it-is, like-minded, like-minded people, like-mindedness, like-minds, like-search, like-sexed, like-sounding, like-spending, like-to, like-unlike, like-what, like-with-like, like-you. | |
Ending with "like": action-like, active-region-like, adrenaline-like, adult-like, aids-like, amoeba-like, andf-like, animal-like, ant-like, ape-like, apple-like, arc-like, arrow-like, bar-like, barn-like, barrack-like, bat-like, bead-like, beak-like, bear-like, bee-like, beetle-like, blade-like, block-like, boat-like, bowl-like, box-like, brush-like, buddha-like, bull-like, butterfly-like, buzzard-like, cage-like, canute-like, canyon-like, car-like, cartoon-like, castle-like, cathedral-like, cave-like, cement-like, chain-like, chameleon-like, chimp-like, chisel-like, christ-like, church-like, claw-like, cliff-like, clove-like, clown-like, club-like, coffin-like, commando-like, computer-like, cone-like, corpse-like, corridor-like, cowboy-like, cow-like, crab-like, crow-like, crust-like, cup-like, cycad-like, daisy-like, dance-like, death-like, desert-like, dinosaur-like, dog-like, dome-like, down-like, dragon-like, dream-like, drug-like, drum-like, duck-like, earth-like, ec-like, eel-like, egf-like, elephant-like, elfin-like, english-like, factory-like, family-like, fanfare-like, fang-like, feather-like, fender-like, fern-like, ferret-like, finger-like, fish-like, fjord-like, flap-like, flare-like, flower-like, fortress-like, friedmann-like, frond-like, gazelle-like, gelada-like, gem-like, ghost-like, gibson-like, gland-like, glass-like, gnome-like, goat-like, god-like, goose-like, gorilla-like, granite-like, granule-like, grass-like, grid-like, gull-like, gypsy-like, hamster-like, hangar-like, harrier-like, hawk-like, heron-like, hog-like, home-like, hook-like, horse-like, human-like, hut-like, immunoglobulin-like, infantile-like, insect-like, janus-like, jelly-like, jet-like, jewel-like, knife-like, lace-like, ladder-like, lady-like, language-like, lark-like, laser-like, law-like, leaf-like, leg-like, lemming-like, life-like, light-like, like-for-like, lily-like, limb-like, limpet-like, lizard-like, lobe-like, lover-like, ltp-like, Macintosh-like, Mac-like, madonna-like, mafia-like, magpie-like, mainframe-like, mammal-like, man-like, mantra-like, mask-like, mat-like, maze-like, medusa-like, membrane-like, mind-like, minuet-like, mirror-like, monkey-like, monk-like, moon-like, moorhen-like, morphine-like, moth-like, motif-like, mouse-like, mousse-like, mucus-like, museum-like, needle-like, net-like, nuthatch-like, object-like, oib-like, ostrich-like, owl-like, owner-like, ox-like, paddle-like, pagoda-like, parchment-like, parkinson-like, park-like, parrot-like, pc-like, pea-like, peat-like, peg-like, pheasant-like, phoenix-like, pigeon-like, pig-like, pistol-like, plate-like, plover-like, plum-like, point-like, policeman-like, porridge-like, pouch-like, priest-like, prison-like, rasp-like, reed-like, rhino-like, ribbon-like, rib-like, ring-like, rock-like, rod-like, root-like, rope-like, sack-like, sac-like, sail-like, sausage-like, scale-like, scissor-like, scythe-like, serpent-like, shark-like, sheet-like, shell-like, shield-like, shrew-like, shrimp-like, skull-like, slab-like, slot-like, slug-like, snake-like, snipe-like, space-like, spade-like, spear-like, sphinx-like, spider-like, spine-like, sponge-like, spreadsheet-like, spring-like, Spud-u-like, squid-like, squirrel-like, star-like, starling-like, state-like, statesman-like, statue-like, stick-like, stilt-like, stork-like, string-like, such-like, sucker-like, swallow-like, sylph-like, tank-like, tardis-like, temple-like, tent-like, tern-like, terrier-like, thread-like, throne-like, time-like, toad-like, tooth-like, toy-like, tramp-like, trance-like, tree-like, tube-like, tundra-like, tunnel-like, unix-like, vampire-like, velvet-like, vice-like, village-like, virus-like, vulture-like, waif-like, war-like, wart-like, wasp-like, wave-like, whip-like, windows-like, wing-like, witch-like, wolf-like, womb-like, workman-like, worm-like, wraith-like, wt-like, yeast-like, zombie-like. | |
Containing "like": African Swine Fever-Like Viruses, avoid-like-the-plague, Enterochromaffin-like Cells, Hepatitis C-Like Viruses, i-can-do-anything-i-want-any-time-i-want-and-make-you-like-it, i'm-just-an-ordinary-bloke-like-you, in peasant-like manner, Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 3, Insulin-Like Growth Factor I, Insulin-Like Growth Factor II, Insulin-Like Growth Factor-Binding Protein 2, Insulin-Like Growth-Factor Binding Protein 1, Insulin-Like Growth-Factor-Binding Proteins, Insulin-Like Growth-Factor-Binding-Protein 5, insulin-like-growth, Insulin-Like-Growth-Factor-Binding Protein 6, looks-like-abstract-art, Neoplastic Endocrine-Like Syndromes, Nonsuppressible Insulin-Like Activity, Shiga-Like Toxin I, Shiga-Like Toxin II, they-don't-make-'em-like-that-any-more, Thogoto-Like Viruses, tram-like-a-train, well-if-you-don't-like-it-that's-all-right, Wooster-like-oddity. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
like pimp | 2,971 | i like big butt | 287 |
glue like | 2,914 | like mike | 270 |
bend it like beckham | 1,916 | dead like me | 265 |
like stone | 1,120 | like i love you | 263 |
glue like lyrics paul sean | 1,048 | someone like you | 262 |
moment like this | 774 | body like nude | 253 |
smell like teen spirit | 556 | just like a pill | 252 |
like love wo | 555 | life or something like it | 241 |
come doing just like people see thousand | 529 | like love lyrics whoa | 239 |
glue like lyrics | 459 | times like these | 232 |
like lyrics pimp | 452 | smell like teen spirit lyrics | 230 |
like my nude photo | 415 | like water for chocolate | 215 |
body like | 399 | like lyrics moment this | 206 |
like lyrics stone | 394 | like lyrics these times | 203 |
glue like paul sean | 386 | celebrity look a like | 197 |
like love lyrics mya whoa | 383 | a girl like you | 191 |
act gonna like that | 366 | fighter foo like lyrics these times | 191 |
i like you | 336 | like love lyrics mya wo | 187 |
like | 330 | banner david like lyrics pimp | 168 |
like love whoa | 319 | like love mya whoa | 162 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "like"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | waardeer (appreciate), soos (as, how, such, such as, what), so lyk (as, how, such, such as, what), lief wees vir (appreciate), hou van (appreciate), hoe (as, how, in what way, such, such as, what, wherefore), as (as, ash, cinder, how, if, provided, provided that, such, such as, than, what, when). (various references) | |
Albanian | dua (aim, appreciate, be fond of, be keen on, be willing to, care, care for, choose, do with, fancy, intend, love, please, seek, take a fancy to, want, wish), si (as, for, how, qua, si, such as). (various references) | |
Arabic | مماثل (analogous, comparable, identical, similar), مضارع (present, present tense), مجانس (akin, identical, namesake, similar), مال إلي, مال (assets, be inclined, bend, bent, cant, capital, chattel, coins, estate, feel sympathy for, funds, gold, incline, lean, pelf, possessions, property, purse, shekels, skew, slant, slope, sympathize with, tilt, tip), مثل (act, adage, aphorism, appear, as, be a symbol for, be typical of, byword, case, depict, describe, example, exemplify, gnome, illustrate, illustration, instance, like this, maxim, perform, play, play act, portray, proverb, represent, saying, sculpt, show, stand before, stand for, such, such as, symbolize, typify), مشابه (analogous, comparable, fellow, hassling, similar), نفس الشىء, ود (amiability), حب (attach, cereal, liking, lose one's heart, love, passion, pip, seed), تماثل (community, homogeneity, identification, identify, identity, likeness, oneness, resemble, sameness, self identification, similarity, symmetry, sympathize, uniformity), تشابه (bear, correspondence, likeness, look alike, parity, propinquity, resemblance, resemble, similarity), شبيه ب, شبيه (parallel), شبه (affinity, assimilate, compare, comparison, feature, imagine, liken, likeness, parallelism, propinquity, quasi-, resemblance, resemble, resole, sameness, semblance, similarity, similitude, take after). (various references) | |
Asturian | gustar (to like). (various references) | |
Aymara | uñtasiña (to look like), mallt'aña (to like). (various references) | |
Basque | gustatzen. (various references) | |
Bemba | ukutemwa (to like). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | ihtsiiyi'tsi (to like). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вероятно (belike, likely, presumably, presumedly, probably), подобен (agnate, akin, alike, allied to, analogous, bastard, comparable, connatural, ditto, homo-, homoeo-, kindred, parallel, similar, sister, such, suchlike), подобен човек (likes), подобно на (on the order of), почти (about, almost, approximately, half, near, nearly, next to, nigh, on, practically, say, something like, virtually, well nigh), приличащ на, еднакъв (alike, coequal, equable, equal, even, identic, identical, invariable, level, one, same, self, twin, unaffected, uniform), желая (desiderate, desire, list, want, will, wish, would), насмалко (narrowly, well nigh), нещо подобно (analogue), нещо еднакво, нещо равно, искам (ask, call for, choose, demand, desire, list, please, postulate, request, require, seek, tax, want, will, wilt, wish, would), обичам (affect, be fond of, care, care for, enjoy, love, taste), сякаш (as though), възможно (possibly), както (as, how), като (after, as, for, on the order of, qua, such as, when), като че ли (as if, quasi), типичен за, такъв човек (likes), тъй да се каже (kind of, quasi), характерен за, харесва ми се, харесвам (affect, cotton, dig, fancy, relish, take a fancy to), равен (concurrent, equal, even, fellow, flat, flush, level, on a par with, peer, smooth, stricken, tantamount), сходен (akin, alike, analogous, cognate, congruent, congruous, osculant, similar), някак (kind of, someway). (various references) | |
Catalan | sí (as, such as, yes). (various references) | |
Cebuano | magustohan (to like). (various references) | |
Chamorro | para ma guaiya (to like). (various references) | |
Chinese | 象, 若 (as, if, to seem), 類 (category, class, jaw, kind, palate, similar, to resemble, typ |